F/B Candia - Chania

F/B CANDIA

Photo © Michele Lulurgas, Piraeus, 09/10/00

Ship	Candia (1973) KANTIA	Building spec.	1971 at Sumitomo Uraga Yards, Yokosuka, Japan N° U943
GRT	7.291	DWT	2.613
Dimensions	129,76 x 22 x 8	Engines	2 Kawasaki - MAN, 11.197 kW
Speed	20 knots	Passengers	1.450
Beds	470	Cars	290
Lane meters		Sister ships	Jabal Ali 3
Registry port.	Chania	Flag	Greek
Former Owners	Central Ferry Co. 1971-73	Former Names	Central No 2 1971-73
New Owners	Naif Marine Services 2001à	New Names	Jebel Ali 2 2001à
Line

She entered in ANEK fleet in 1973, joining the sister Rethimnon. Mainly employed on Piraeus - Heraklion Line, after the arrival in the Aegean Seas of F/B’s “Lissos” and “Lato”, was employed in various routes: first in the Piraeus - Peloponnese - Crete routes, replacing the Miras Ferries’s F/B Theseus, linking the ports of Piraeus, Neapolis, Gythion and Kalamata in Peloponnese, the islands of Kithira and Antikithira and the port of Kasteli, on Crete Island, then, after two seasons on this line was chartered to DANE in 1999, being deployed on Dodecanese routes (Piraeus - Patmos - Leros - Kalymnos - Kos - Rhodes and Piraeus - Astypalea - Kalymnos - Kos - Rhodes). This charter lasted only a year; in 2000 the ferry was repainted in ANEK’s colours and, after the licence gained by Anek Lines to serve Cyclades islands, started to serve the Piraeus - Ios - Santorini line, departing daily except Sunday at 14.00 and once a week also from/to Amorgos - Astypalea. Also this service lasted only a year: was sold together with “Rethimnon” in 2001 to Naif Marine Service, a company which employs her on a link between Umm-Qasr and Port Rashid.

The “Candia” on her first years of service – photo © Fleet File Rotterdam

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